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It was printed under the title Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century; a few copies only were issued, when the publisher refused to proceed with the work unless radical alterations were made in the text.
The Revolt of Islam 1901
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As for Laon, which is interesting throughout, and altogether the most delightful building in the Ile de France, the fleches are gone, but the towers are there, and you will have to study them, before studying those at Chartres, with all the intelligence you have to spare.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878
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Come, let us see this epigraph, 'Laon's Vision of Cythna,'
Olive A Novel Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856
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Illustration III [see Text, X, 767], taken from a MS. of the ninth or the beginning of the tenth century in the library of Laon, which is in course of publication in the "Pal.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Now, I shall ask you, if the King had trusted you to defend La Rochelle, and he had trusted me to defend the Castle of Laon, which is in the heart of France, where the country is at peace, to whom ought the King to be more beholden at the end of the war, — to you who had defended La Rochelle without losing it, or to me who kept the Castle of Laon?’
Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861
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Mr.H. B.xton Forman, C.B. See "The Shelley Library", pages 83-86, for an account of the copy of "Laon" upon which Shelley worked in revising for publication.]
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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Mr.H. B.xton Forman, C.B. See "The Shelley Library", pages 83-86, for an account of the copy of "Laon" upon which Shelley worked in revising for publication.]
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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They had come from Sedan mainly by two routes -- the Crown Prince of Saxony marching by the northern line, through Laon and Soissons, and the Crown Prince of Prussia by the southern line, keeping his right wing on the north bank of the Marne, while his left and centre approached the French capital by roads between that river and the Seine.
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A different way of elaborating chants on special feasts was employed from the twelfth century onward for lessons and some other chants, especially in the highly individual liturgies of such feasts as Circumcision known from Beauvais, Sens, Laon, and other centres see above, I.9.
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The Easter chants in this recording feature elaborate tropes additions of texts and melodies to the traditional chants from manuscripts of Laon and Nivers.
"Les Trois Maries" bls 2009
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